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  • I am pretty sure this is not her first performance ever.  Maybe her first solo performance on camera. But didn't see perform with the Breakfast Club before this?

  • her voice is the bomb. i am telling you there is no other person on this planet that can copy her voice its so unique and soooooo different , it has something its something you cant lay ur finger on

  • how cool is this , nothing is more interesting and cool than seeing how good she was, has been and will be !!!

    love her , like me

  • almsot 30 years later she is the biggest female act ever and still in demand! *claps*

  • @bluesugar58 yes she is and it makes me sick some of these clowns that say lady Gaga is bigger than her already. Get real.

  • ..upppp madonna..

  • ...teresita paramount..mujer10..electrodan­ce-sensuall.., madrid spain..

  • even in her premiere she sing without playback i love this performances.

  • she is my favorite she star somewhere

  • Now i see where Vanessa Paradis in Joe le Taxi got her inspiration from XD

  • "You go, girl!"

  • I find the androgenous look a bit strange and sexually ambialent. The later incarnations of Madonna were much more overtly heterosexual. Thank you for posting this video

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  • I remember when Madonna used to really sing! I miss those days!

  • hey she sounds normal here so her voice was normal. but why does she sound like a chipmunk on her first record then??

  • whatever you do in life. Look at this clip. Madonna got a cheap opening and a smattering of applause ...she worked her ass off ...and now look....

  • that was the beginning, unforgetable

  • Cool! "And you'll be hearing that a lot" - he's a prophet. =) Actually, she's Madonna, not Maddona.)) Thumbs up for the uploader to read this and change the title. ;)

  • @ihasch This is totally live. It's so obvious. ;)

  • the beginning:-)

  • This is a lip synch.

  • Dear god, their pants are so high 0_o.

  • What a remarkable improvement she made after her career took off. Madonna's greatest strength is her tenacity and perfectionism. Not the greates singer but the greatest entertainer.

  • Что делает кириллица на заднике????о_ооооооо

  • NO ONE LIKE MADONNA!

  • spettacolare questa sua prima esibizione già ' era una gran star

  • Oh Gosh, how 80s is that! Anyway, with that performance she'd not win a bucket of cold water at American Idol. In this clip she comes very natural, but unfortunatley one can also see very clearly that she has no singing or artistic talent whatsoever. All she has is a strong will, ruthlessness and perseverance and that took her all the way through her career.

  • That audience was lame. What were there like 5 people there? At least they woke up by the end and gave her applause.

  • so amazing

  • 1;04...Go on girl..okkkk..lol

  • yeah as usuall dumb fucks never see talent coming up. the crowd is useless

  • Not bad for the very first time)

  • hermosa!

  • omg i love this, the guy at the beginning cracks me up too.

  • I love u so much Madonna : - )))))

    I've been literally dreaming and thinking and talking about you for the past 12 years and 8 months.................boring basically everyone with my Madonna blabber lol.....but I guess that for once I might not get back home empty-handed and broken for the umpteenth time....most of all friendless as if I were a Ghost

    I am sure Oscar Wilde would be proud of me now.....I love him

  • Russian letters in the background!

  • "It's impressive that she actually can sing here..." says another commenter below. Isn't it ironic how a singer can earn a living by singing and making albums? Naw, she just got and kept her career by shaking her T&A.

    Did the cameraman take a pee break during the performance and leave the camera focused on the middle?

  • Wow...she was THAT good then!!!

  • Esto es una muestra de que puedes hacer todos tus sueños realidad, yo tengo este album pero nunca pensé que madonna antes no cantaba muy bien. Pues esto es una pequeña muestra de que ella puso mucho empeño, para ser hoy quien es. Simplemente LA REINA DE LA MUSICA " UN ICONO" ...Madonna

  • at this time ...no one ever got the fashion and she change the image of a real woman of the future,,,,as we can see here evrythings was poor in technology(mic,band,intruemnts and the videos) but she sang very much impressived...thats why peoples love her in the frst ...for a poor videos we can see the real artist,,,how to entertain the audience!!!well done madonna!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Gotta love the dancers...ha...

  • So exciting to see the beginnings of my Idol, Damn is so wrong in so many ways but you know she's especial she left people facscinated when she performs in any stage and puff now is the greatest and succeful female performer in the entire world...

  • Can you imagine that this girl was going to be the queen of music just a few years after that. The very first time I sa Madonna was in the video Lucky Star, never heard of her before, and I said to everybody around me; She's going to be big, very big. I knew it right away.

  • this is 1983 actually

  • No calificaba ni para mediocre! Borracha, nerviosa y torpe. Quién hubiese dicho que iba a llegar donde llegó?

  • loves it!! gotta start somewhere huh?

  • Here... I think she is okay. Although, our days she just tries to show her clit about the place

  • Love this song, sounds good live...i'm impressed!

  • who saw this live?

  • Ragazzi questa si è fatta da sola, guardate in che posti si esibiva.....adesso fa concerti negli stadi con decine di migliaia di persone!!

    Altro che i ragazzetti di "Amici" che per aver cantato quattro cavolate in tv vengono osannati come dei!!

    Guardate ed imparate cosa significa davvero fare la gavetta.....GRANDE MADONNA!!!!! Ero in prima fila al suo sticky and Sweet tour a Barcellona, è una donna piena di carisma e personalità, la ammiro tantissimo.

    Ciao a tutti.

  • @linzil1986 concordo...

  • Nice video.. madonna in the beginning was good and she still good.. innovations.. explorations.. all her music is about herself.. doing something new

  • What are those cyrillic letters on the wall for, huh?

  • this is the best.. love it

  • quien iba a pensar que 20 años despues seria la Reina del Pop..creo q si Madonna ve estas imagenes se muere...

  • wow deep and meaningful stuff.i think i reached enlightenment..

  • Grazie Rocco per questa rarità! E' davvero bello vedere i primi passi di una grnade star!! Imma (Bologna-ItaliaI

  • Grazie Rocco per questa rarità! E' davvero bello vedere i primi passi di una grnade star!! Imma (Bologna-ItaliaI

  • madonnas real first PA

  • I'd like to know who her wardrobe designer was! ha ha!

  • cool as, star power from the beginning

  • fantastic!!!!!!!!

  • ALTHOUGH IT'S HER First Performance she was a star alredy..

    I LOVE YOU MADONNA..!!

    THANKS FOR THE VID.. IT'S JUST GREAT-!

  • It's like a really hip high school talent show. Love the move where she leans back and stretches her neck. Thanks for posting this.

  • when she was at her best raw and good. not like now a pretentious asshole

  • Hi! i'm from Russia. There are russian letters against a background. Where was this perfomance?

  • @OlgaRussia66 lies it's all english

  • Thanks for that vid. Where do you see that M glares at her dancers?

  • From 5:20- 5:30- what the heck is the camera man trying to frame in his shot? =p

  • wow,did not know !

  • Very cool video. I liked the dancers too.

  • I sawe madonna at Metro nightclub in Boston the same year. Is that her brother christopher on the right?

  • Haha wow!!! Id throw the mic at them. Theyre totally off the rhythm!!!!

  • que increible, lleva el baile en la sangre, han pasado mas de 25 años y sigue bailando. GRANDE.

    LA REINA DEL POP !!!!

  • *****

  • boring crap

  • God bless Martin Burgoyne....white boy at the end...M's best friend in the early days...who died of AIDS shortly after she shot to stardom. M apparently paid all of his medical expenses at St. Vincent's Hospital in NYC.

  • Funny... I never realised until this night that Madonna actually started making her fortune off of the gay audience. God bless her...

  • old look

  • Very interesting and valuable video

  • Los inicios de la reina Madonna, GOD BLESS YOU RoccoStricker for this gift thank you!

  • love it thanks for sharing this rare clip on her....

  • she's actually a great musician. she might not have been born with a whitney houston voice or the natural movement of an MJ, but if you ever saw her sing acappella off stage or just for fun, she actually has very good intonation and pitch, not to mention great sense of rhythm.

  • Bravo! Very cool piece of her history!

  • Looks and sounds like a bunch of average teens goofing around in the basement. Her voice is average and boring. But she's attractive, and learned how to sell herself by using sexuality and glamour. Sex and looks have power. I've ignored her for all these years. How did i get here, watching this, wasting time? Maybe I needed a laugh and a reminder of how shallow, adolescent, and in poor taste alot of pop music is.

  • maybe ur just being a big fat hater because look where she started and look where she is now. so why dont u keep ignorning her and keep ur nasty comments to ur self . thanks

  • maddona.........always shining

  • Never having been a fan of Madonna's early work, I have to admit her singing isn't too bad here. Considerably better than the amateurish rolling-around-on-the-floor-in­-the-wedding-dress thing she did on MTV a bit later. Still, it remains a mystery how somebody with so little raw musical talent (or looks) ever became a sex symbol / music icon. Her story is a testament that if you have enough work ethic, discipline, and street smarts, you can make up for anything.

  • dear korgri, madonna was a from outside pontiac MI, who had big dreams, wanted to shine, got on a bus, arrived in times square with a dime in her pocket and ambition, joined a dance company, clubbed, drugged, fucked, posed nude. . .whatever, her way to stardom. AND it all came true, probably by now the most photographed woman in the world EVER. she is an artist!

  • Madonna represents more than anything else the triumph of mediocrity, she was a perfect cultural reflection of Reagan, a mediocre actor who became president. Like the middle ages peasant who imagines himself a nobleman because he got a million other peasants to give him one guilder each. Therefore in his mind the million guilders alone make him a nobleman. No one in her audience really demands all that much so it doesn't take much to sell them. They think exhibitionism is the same thing as art.

  • "That's Madonna and you'll be hearing it a lot!" yeah we did!!! LOL

  • greatest ever footage

  • I love how she barely got an applause in the beginning of the video, and look at where she's at now.

  • yea i know, now shes filling football stadiums on a daily basis lol long live the queen

  • Even then her mechanical perfection in dancing was evident.

  • The movements, choreography, the voice, the music, she was in full control. It was an early of her future domination in the world of music and fashion. Madonna will remain unequalled. She 's the greatest female artist of the twentieth century and of all time.

  • Well said that man. There will never be another Madonna Louise Ciccone.

  • I like her best here when she was more alternative new-wavish. Later she become a POP start and I didn't follow her there but her pop songs were not bad at all.

    She is definitely the queen of pop.

  • It's impressive that she actually can sing here - her intonation and timing are actually quite good. Hey, the success is not all out of nothing. ..

  • @dannytaenzer she is one of the rare pop artists who actually sounds the same live as she does on her cd's not a fucking miley cyrus who sounds like shit live...madonna is just pure talent

  • Her band days were gone by this performance. She was singing to tracks. Her first LP broke huge in NYC because of the 2 12"ers. Sold jack everywhere else. Billboard was 50% airplay, it got none til the 45rpms/vids. She signed in the Spring of '82. "Everybody" wasn't even the first choice for the first 12". She signed with Warner Bros. dance division, Sire was just the imprint, Sire was actually run upstairs by Warner suits with Seymour under them.

  • Nonsense. She was huge in NYC in late '82 with her first 12" a big seller. By spring '83 she was even bigger. Her LP sold 100 thousand units straight out in 2 weeks in the summer of '83. She was never not famous in NYC from Oct. '82 and on.

  • That's a bit off, Madonna's debut album started off very low on the Billboard 200 and didn't start to rise high until late 83 and then early 84.

    Where's no way in hell it sold 100,000 copies in 2 weeks in the summer of 83.

  • and she got in the rock hall of fame?

  • yeah she did! And rightfully so. Unlike most bands during her time, She was very innovated and she did other things in music that no one else did. She followed her own beat and everyone followed. She is an artist.

  • simply astounding, those people who saw her that night are so lucky to be able to say they saw her perform before she was famous. little did they know...

  • wow! her voice is great here!

  • I think this is when she was signed to a deal but she wasnt like really popular yet. 1982 she wasnt famous until 1984

  • but wasn't she famous in 83 she already had a #1 hit on the dance chart, and released some songs?

  • Maybe she had some fans but "like a virgin" made her a superstar in 1984.

  • In 1983 "Holiday" was a hit and then later in the year "Borderline" started to take off.

    This is in 1982 after her first single "Everybody" was recorded. She didn't have her actual WB deal yet.

  • was this her first show ever, as in before she was famous, and popular...if so she did a good job and it seemed like she already made music and was popular..

  • This is right around the time of her first single, but for several years before this she had her band Emmy and performed with them.

  • Madonna paid her dues and rock the world, and single handily changed the course of music today! Cheers to her for doing it her way! All the haters, I can't hear you!

  • why is "madonna" spelled incorrectly?

  • Madonna is the QUEEN OF THE WORLD

    [Brazil]

    Madonna we love you!!

  • very nice, inspite of no perfection....still Madonna is No. 1

  • By that time she had refused a contract with Columbia. She had meat a DJ would introduce her to Warner. Before they accepted to sign her, they would go to see her performing. This is one of these performances. They obviously though she was quite interesting. Her story is an amazing adventure.

  • Funny how people try and call her talentless yet here in her FIRST ever actual performance she gives a good vocal despite NEVER having any vocal training prior to this. In her first ever proper appearance she sang better than 90% of today's younger stars ever have or ever will live on stage. And to think that clueless 12-16 year olds are all over internet music messageboards saying that Rihanna and Miley fucking Cyrus are more talented than Madonna. So sad.

  • You really don't know what you are talking about.

  • its awesome that you have this and thanks for sharing, but i would like her so much more if she didn't come off as being such a bitch.

  • Madonna Rocks! most haters on here are usually guys, they can't grasp the total impact this chic has made on the music industry and pop culture itself, most everything you see/hear today was because of Madonna, even rappers pay her props and female entertainers can only applaud with envy even if they don't like her, not many people witness history, like when Elvis was around or the Beatles were together, we are doing it with Madonna, its mythological. 25 years on top, thats talent/balls

  • I like the performance & clothes they wore

  • hihihi! she's hilarious in that one!!! XD

    but u can already definitely hear the madonna sound that will make her famous! she managed to stick around and not just be a one off success. talented singer, dancer and business woman. but not actress... :P

  • so good then such a pretentious bitch now such a waste the classic case of getting to big for your boots . hate her now adopting babies then giving them to the nany to look after , fuckin grow up and retire

  • There was like 20 people in that bar that night.

  • Her voice was amazing. That was such a great performance. She is beyond talented. I was born in 73 and I can tell you I grew up in the 80s. She made those moves up herself. She has been such a fabulous role model to grow up with. She made being sexy ok which with out that, my life would have sucked! Now being 35, she is still such a role model to me in my life. Bless her Star:)

  • Wsan't this look recreated in the "Who's that girl" video??

  • Holy Shit! Oh my God! What a find....Me thinks that Madge will look back on this and cringe!

  • In wich world? Do you read the news?

  • I wonder what young Madonna would say to her older self?

  • probably something like : "lighten up bitch!" lol. jk. i luv madonna, i just think she could have more fun when she had just started. ya know what i mean?

  • this was when she was good now she is shit too much money and adoopting babies i loved her then fuckin hate her now it shows what money and power does for u

  • dude shut ur fukin mouth, dont hate. What the fuk wud u do , if BOOM u became a big star turn down money and say no, id rather stay at the roxy all my life and do bar shows. shes a icon,diva,mom,and inspiration to so many ppl....at her current age, so IF U AINT GOT NUTHIN NICE TO SAY ABOUT HER DONT SAY NUTHIN AT ALL. uh makes me sick, all u ppl wit the "old madonna/new madonna....wtf did she do to become NEW? shes jus talented .

  • she was a superstar now she is just a 50 year old hag trying to be 21 again.buying african babies just to take them home and give them to the nanny to look after for life'only to be let out for pics with the press.why cant she just buy a toy dog like all the other rich celebs.i bet her x husband is delighted to be out of there.still liked her back in the 80s its a shame how money and surrounding yourself with sychophants makes you turn into

  • ha. the moves are cool. did those used to be the cool moves back then or she's the one who made them up? i wouldn't know. i was born in 1992

  • this proves anyone can do anything if they focus.

  • very eighties...new wave as it was at the time!

  • its very rare, but, sheS an idol...... ever

  • It is impressive to see how Madonna has evolved as a performance artist, and I find most amusing to see here one of her first presentations, specially after watching the DVD Confessions of a dance floor. She is without a doubt the superstar of the pop music.

  • better than studio recording

  • our star is born!!go madge!!

  • "everybody, do your thing" - and she does it, very good  ;)

  • and a star is born

  • esta cancion me recuerda a una amiga de la familia, marthita, dicen que se volvio loca de la cabeza y salio corriendo desnuda por la calle golpeando a la gente.

  • bonita tu historia pero.....la loca no seras tu?? jajaja que tiene que ver tu familiar con este video??? ...cu cu!!

  • loca yo? como te atreves? bueno no mas un poquito, ja, ja/.

  • ci sape comu rashkava alli tiempi!

  • bonita tu historia pero.....la loca no seras tu?? jajaja que tiene que ver tu familiar con este video??? ...cu cu!!

  • MADONNA ROCKS & ALWAYS WILL!

    PERIOD.

  • MADONNA ROCKS! This commenter sucks!

  • this guy tslks too much

  • this is not her first performance bitch!

  • Well, she performed in small clubs and showcases before this, but this was truly her first notable appearance.

  • C'est génial de pouvoir voir cette vidéo. Fantastique

  • wow she was still fantastic in the very early days...LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!!!!

  • Does anyone know what club this was at and who the backup dancers are? I know her brother was for a while in her early years and some of her band members. Just curious.

  • shoot the fucking compare

  • MADONNA - thats all we need to know

  • shows you what hard work and talent can do for you. She is a true star.

  • happy birthday to the queen of pop!

  • Looks like she used to sing better back then than now!

  • Thanks for posting this vid. She's my Idol!

  • FANTASTICO AUN HOY ES INNOVADOR

  • Fantastic! Thanks so much.

  • Wow, I've never seen this before! Thanks for posting it!!!!

  • cool, great to see the begining of a star.

  • god amazing what a good producer- manager -stylist did for her!!

  • hahahaha, she looked so nice

  • Totally awesome, always an icon.

  • She was great. Her dancers and their outfits had to go, hehe.

  • She is amazing, 1982 . Thanks for put this

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